Terms of service
Governed by the law of Singapore.
What this is
Blinded is a document redaction tool that runs entirely in your browser. Using it means accepting these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.
These terms cover the hosted tool at blinded.dev and any license bought through it.
The thing you must read
You are responsible for checking the output. Blinded rebuilds a document as images so that covered text cannot be recovered from the file, and it looks for the things you ask it to look for. It is a tool, not a guarantee, and it will sometimes miss something: a word its reader misread, a face at an angle it did not match, a detector you did not switch on.
Every proposal is shown to you before anything is covered, and nothing is applied that you did not agree to, precisely because the judgement about whether a document is safe to release is yours and cannot be delegated to a program. Check the exported file before you send it. If a document matters enough to redact, it matters enough to read afterwards.
What this is not
The output is not certified. Blinded produces a redacted file; it does not certify that the file is safe to release. That judgement is yours, and it is made by looking at what came out.
Some courts and regulators require a particular redaction process, or a certificate that one was followed. Blinded provides neither, and nothing here is legal advice about whether a document meets an obligation you are under.
Misses are possible. A word the reader misread, a logo at a size or colour the matcher did not reach, a detector left unticked — each is a way for something to survive that you meant to cover. This is why every proposal is shown before it is applied, and why the exported file is worth reading.
We are not a HIPAA business associate and do not sign business associate agreements. Your document never reaches us, so no protected health information is disclosed to us by using this — but whether a file is properly de-identified is your determination and not ours.
No warranty
The tool is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the tool — including any disclosure of information that a redaction failed to cover. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, which for most people is nothing and for everybody else is a few dollars.
That is a normal disclaimer, and it is also an honest description of the bargain: this costs a few dollars and cannot carry the risk of your release decision.
What a license is
Documents of thirty pages or fewer are free, at any length of use and forever. Above thirty pages, writing the finished file needs a license. Everything before that step — opening, reading, searching, marking, reviewing, saving a draft — is free at any length.
A license is a time-limited permission to use the export feature, not an account and not a subscription. There is nothing to cancel: it stops working when it expires. It is a string, it is checked on your own machine, and it will work on any machine you paste it into until it runs out. Keep it to yourself; sharing it is a breach of these terms even though nothing technical stops you.
A license buys length. It does not buy a better redaction — the tool does exactly the same thing either way.
Payment
Passes are sold by Paddle as merchant of record. Your purchase is a transaction with Paddle, whose own terms apply to it alongside these, and Paddle handles the payment, the tax and the receipt.
Prices are shown before you buy and may change; a change never affects a license you have already bought.
Using it properly
Do not use Blinded to break the law, to conceal something you are legally required to disclose, or to alter a document you are not entitled to alter. Do not attempt to interfere with the site or with the service that signs licenses, and do not forge a license.
Since the tool runs on your machine and sends us nothing, we have no way to detect any of this and no interest in trying. This clause tells you where the line is; it is not a claim to be watching it.
The source
The source is published under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. You may read it, run it yourself and change it for any noncommercial purpose. You may not sell it or use it commercially. The license governs the source; these terms govern the hosted tool and any license bought here.
Ending it
You can stop using the tool at any time; there is nothing to close and nothing of yours held anywhere. We may stop offering the hosted tool, in which case any unexpired license would be refunded on request.
Because the source is published, the tool itself cannot be taken away from you: a copy you have run yourself keeps working whatever happens to this site.
Which law
These terms are governed by the law of Singapore, and the courts of Singapore have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of them.
Nothing in them takes away a right you have under the law where you live that cannot be given up by agreement. Where a term here goes further than that law allows, it applies as far as it is allowed to and no further.
Changes
If these terms change, the change is visible in the repository’s history along with everything else. Continuing to use the tool after a change means accepting it.
Questions: support@blinded.dev.